ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Oeuvres completes: Lettres Élémentaires sur La Botanique and Recueil de Plantes Coloriées . Paris: Poinçot, 1789. 3 volumes. 8° (197 x 123mm). Letterpress half-titles and engraved pictorial titles after Marillier to vols. I and II, vol.III contains 44 (numbered 1-38, 1-6) hand-coloured plates. (Light foxing to flyleaves only.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt (few small dark spots on covers), arms of Duchesse de Berry (Olivier 2554) blocked in gilt on covers, pink silk endpapers, g.e., by Bradel. Provenance : Marie-Caroline-Ferdinande-Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870), binding and Bibliothèque de Rosny bookplate. These volumes, constituting vols. 5, 6 and 38 of Poinçot's edition of the Oeuvres , formed part of the celebrated library of the Duchesse de Berry at Rosny. Her ownership of them is particularly interesting in light of her patronage of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, who illustrated an edition of Rousseau's Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique in 1822. Cohen-de Ricci 910-11. (3)
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Oeuvres completes: Lettres Élémentaires sur La Botanique and Recueil de Plantes Coloriées . Paris: Poinçot, 1789. 3 volumes. 8° (197 x 123mm). Letterpress half-titles and engraved pictorial titles after Marillier to vols. I and II, vol.III contains 44 (numbered 1-38, 1-6) hand-coloured plates. (Light foxing to flyleaves only.) Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt (few small dark spots on covers), arms of Duchesse de Berry (Olivier 2554) blocked in gilt on covers, pink silk endpapers, g.e., by Bradel. Provenance : Marie-Caroline-Ferdinande-Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870), binding and Bibliothèque de Rosny bookplate. These volumes, constituting vols. 5, 6 and 38 of Poinçot's edition of the Oeuvres , formed part of the celebrated library of the Duchesse de Berry at Rosny. Her ownership of them is particularly interesting in light of her patronage of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, who illustrated an edition of Rousseau's Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique in 1822. Cohen-de Ricci 910-11. (3)
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